My first EarthX in Dallas was fun and rewarding and, at times, challenging. Even at an event highlighting efforts to better protect the environment, it is still a challenge to convince some that addressing the effects of immigration-driven population growth must be part of that conversation.
The official unemployment rate is at an "historic low" and job growth is encouraging. There is, however, more to the story. Wage growth remains sluggish and there is still a lot of "slack" in the labor market, meaning the claims of a labor shortage are attempts by employers to undo the recent gains made by American workers.
In her interview with Jose Antonio Vargas this week, NPR's Rachel Martin mischaracterized separate proposals from David Frum and President Trump to reduce immigration. "Chain migration" and "family reunification" are not interchangeable terms.
Members of Congress and Washington-based journalists are mourning the death of veteran New York Times reporter Robert Pear, 69, of complications from a stroke suffered last week.
Pear is being extolled for his meticulous, fair-minded, no-nonsense approach to complicated policy topics. And that was the way that we at NumbersUSA experienced him in his occasional coverage of us and our policy topic. Colleagues and sources describe him as always looking for stories that were "hidden in plain sight" which all other journalists missed.
Once again, NumbersUSA is buying TV ads to tell our nation's leaders what their political advisers and the news media won't tell them: The American people want reduced immigration and higher wages.
Hello, folks. This is Joshua, running all things tech here at NumbersUSA, with the first in a series of technical posts aimed at keeping you in the loop as we make changes to our online activism toolkit. I mean, I'm on social media (probably too much), and I'll admit to the occasional curse whenever a site I regularly visit does so much as move a button. But, in time, I often find the change really was better after all. (Rinse and repeat!) It was that it was unanticipated and unexplained that bothered me, more than anything else.
Most who travel abroad are well aware of State Department travel warnings, which inform citizens about dangers related to crime and terrorism in other countries. But have you ever seen an advisory designed to warn criminals not to travel to rule-of-law states in our own country? That’s essentially what the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other open border groups sought when they issued a travel warning to steer illegal-alien criminals away from Florida.
Frum addressed all of Vargas' questions and charges during the interview, but the real conflict was between one man's desire to engage on the question of limits and another man's desire to avoid it.